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John Quiggin

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Central banks could learn more from experience
New times new approaches: exploring Australia's economic options

The global economic situation in 2009 is complex and rapidly changing

An agenda for social democracy

Uncertainty and climate change policy

This paper consists of a summary of the main sources of uncertainty about climate change, and a discussion of the major implications for economic analysis and the formulation of climate policy

Carbon taxes vs emissions trading
Budget 2008: first impressions
The practicalities of emissions trading

With both major parties proposing to develop an emissions trading regime, this paper discusses some important practical issues and trade-offs

Risk and social democracy

'Risk' has become a central theme in 21st-century policy thinking

Election 2007: water policy

Australia's current water shortages reflect policy mistakes going back many decades, argues John Quiggin

Fiddling while carbon burns: why climate policy needs pervasive emission pricing as well as technology promotion

This paper reviews the typical elements of a technology-focused climate policy (currently adopted by the USA and Australia under the umbrella of Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate-AP6) against the elements of an effective and efficient ideal climate policy

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Rethinking the Rules Governing Australia
16 March 2010

Australian citizens are being asked to provide input into a nation-wide
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Secrecy law reforms strike a blow to old culture of government secrecy
12 March 2010

The Australian Law Reform Commission report into Commonwealth secrecy laws, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia (ALRC Report 112) is the result of a 15 -month inquiry which identified 506 secrecy provisions in 176 pieces of Commonwealth legislation, including 358 criminal secrecy offences.

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